By: Ian
Chimene, i am not quite sure, if 22 U.S.C § 288d is really the “governing provision” in relation to a functional immunity of DSK. At least its not the first that would have come to my mind, from an...
View ArticleBy: Tom Veal
I think we may properly doubt that any argument emanating from someone who believes that the United States and North Korea are “of comparable moral standing” is worth a rational being’s attention.
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[...] CHIMENE KEITNER: Why Has DSK Not Yet Asserted Immunity? Because He Can’t. [...]
View ArticleBy: Nathan
“That two states of comparable moral standing and incomparable standing in most other respects still do not recognize an otherwise near universally signed and respected convention, does NOT allow to...
View ArticleBy: NealK
I wish someone would forward this post to Greg Jarrett at Fox News. He was on TV all day yesterday pontificating on how the 1947 Convention would provide DKS with immunity, seemingly unaware the US is...
View ArticleBy: Georg Felis
I think we need to raise one level of abstraction on this. If it were beneficial to the present administration and to the IMF to get DSK out of the country and back to relative safety in France, the...
View ArticleBy: David W.
From United States v Enger 472 F.Supp.490, 503 (D.N.J. 1978) regarding official acts immunity: It is the work rather than the official which is protected, with the result that such officials must...
View ArticleBy: [insert here] delenda est
Georg, you may not be aware that the US is a Federal country, and what’s good for the President doesn’t necessarily carry any weight with the States…complex, I know. I think Chimene’s analysis is very...
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[...] its employees. However, Chimene Keitner has beaten me to it and written an excellent piece over at Opinio Juris. I agree with the points that she makes and recommend her piece to readers. In...
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[...] its employees. However, Chimene Keitner has beaten me to it and written an excellent piece over at Opinio Juris. I agree with the points that she makes and recommend her piece to readers. In...
View ArticleBy: Is IMF Managing Director (DSK) Entitled to Immunity from Prosecution? |...
[...] its employees. However, Chimene Keitner has beaten me to it and written an excellent piece over at Opinio Juris. I agree with the points that she makes and recommend her piece to readers. In...
View ArticleBy: Alexander Eichener
David W.’s last argument is convincing and well-argued, but it simply does not meet the case here, so it is moot. No such position as alleged in the last paragraph has been taken by any “defendant”...
View ArticleBy: Alexander Eichener
Oh, one note on the IMF spokesman WIlliam Murray who is not a jurist (and in his position probably should not be), and who under a siege barrage of oral questions had spontaneously issued this one...
View ArticleBy: Chimene Keitner
Many thanks to all for this interesting chain of comments. I did suggest in my initial post that, because DSK cannot claim status immunity under any treaty to which the US is a party, he would have to...
View ArticleBy: Nathan
Alexander, thanks for your interesting post. Your point that international law exists, in part, to protect international institutions is well taken. To this end, nations are asked to compromise the...
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